Just put in the Parkway. Studies have already shown that the Rocky Flats area is signifcantly cleaner than it was in the 60s and 70s. It's no surprise that some group out of Boulder is trying to prove otherwise. The Parkway will eventually get built in one form or another...

Polar Bear wrote:Radioactive pretty much means forever...Suppose the economy collapses...Who will pay to see that the nuclear waste from all the Nuclear plants are properly cared for forever??Global warming lasts for thousands of years,no recovery in site..what about Nuclear waste?? The 2 nuclear plant in Georgia are the same kind thaT FAILED IN JAPAN,THEY JUST PUT THE WATER TANK ON the roof,so when the electricity fails gravity will get the water to the reactor core,,,this is all untested,but what are a few billions wasted??

Radioactive does not necessarily mean forever. Some isotopes have very short half lives of a few nanoseconds some have half lives as old as the universe. One out of every 10,000 potassium atoms in your body is K-40 which has a half life of 1.248 billion years.

The new recently approved reactors in Georgia will are not the same kind that failed in Japan (PWR vs. BWR for example).

I'll stop here pointing out the errors in our comment. Try doing a little more research next time. Be careful though, I know people who have changed their opinion of nuclear energy once some of the common misconceptions were cleared up for them.

Polar Bear wrote:Radioactive pretty much means forever...Suppose the economy collapses...Who will pay to see that the nuclear waste from all the Nuclear plants are properly cared for forever??Global warming lasts for thousands of years,no recovery in site..what about Nuclear waste?? The 2 nuclear plant in Georgia are the same kind thaT FAILED IN JAPAN,THEY JUST PUT THE WATER TANK ON the roof,so when the electricity fails gravity will get the water to the reactor core,,,this is all untested,but what are a few billions wasted??

Radioactive does not necessarily mean forever. Some isotopes have very short half lives of a few nanoseconds some have half lives as old as the universe. One out of every 10,000 potassium atoms in your body is K-40 which has a half life of 1.248 billion years.

The new recently approved reactors in Georgia will are not the same kind that failed in Japan (PWR vs. BWR for example).

I'll stop here pointing out the errors in our comment. Try doing a little more research next time. Be careful though, I know people who have changed their opinion of nuclear energy once some of the common misconceptions were cleared up for them.

As documented in FBI reports and court records, FBI agents and prosecutors became aware that Rockwell workers had been mixing hazardous and other wastes with concrete to create one-ton solid blocks called pondcrete. These were stored in the open under tarps on asphalt pads. The workers had also directed liquid contamination into a series of holding ponds, even after regulators had closed the ponds due to ground-water contamination. Liquid from the sewage plant, meanwhile, had been "spray irrigated" over fields via sprinklers, mainly to avoid the cost --and the regulatory and public reviews -- that would come from directly discharging the contaminated waste into creeks.

The pondcrete turned out to be weak storage. Relatively unprotected from the elements, the blocks began to leak and sag. Nitrates, cadmium and low-level radioactive waste -- some of which with a 24,000-year half-life -- began to leach into the ground and run downhill toward Walnut Creek and Woman Creek. There they would sometimes meet the liquids from the sprinklers, for they also had run-off that flowed into the creeks.[31]